‘FIDDLER’ HAS A NEW ROOF

Coronado-based company restaging hit musical at downtown’s Lyceum

Coronado-based Lamb’s Players Theatre, which already had been playing a game of musical chairs with its two performance spaces, has added a third venue (not to mention an actual musical) to the equation.

The theater announced it will stage an encore production of “Fiddler on the Roof” at downtown’s Lyceum Theatre beginning Jan. 10. The Lyceum complex in Horton Plaza is best known as the home of San Diego Repertory Theatre, but its two spaces are frequently rented out for other productions.

Lamb’s previously staged “Fiddler” to major success at its own resident theater in Coronado over the summer (the company reports that the production was selling out regularly by the end of the run).

The restaging is scheduled to run through Feb. 2 and will bring back most of the previous edition’s cast, including Sam Zeller in the lead role of the milkman Tevye.

With the play “Wit” having just opened on the Coronado stage, and the Hitchcock riff “The 39 Steps” about to go up at the Lamb’s-leased Horton Grand Theatre space, “Fiddler” further expands the company’s footprint.

It also would appear to signal a reversal of fortune (or at least a sign of renewed vigor and ambition) for Lamb’s, which as recently as last year was still grappling with serious financial issues. (The company, founded in National City nearly 40 years ago and now one of San Diego’s four largest theaters, embarked on numerous cost-cutting measures to get back on its feet.)